Well, after yesterday's Factory update, GNOME is once again usable (although some things are still broken - basically it seems that anything that's not yet moved prefix may not respect settings because of the associated move in GConf schema location) so I'm back where I feel comfortable. There were somethings I preferred about KDE and some I didn't, so my reflections on using KDE are:

• Some things are counter-intuitive. Take the logout/lock applet for example. I don't know why, but it just seems logical that logout should be on the right and lock on the left but it's the other way around.
• I wanted to make Firefox my default browser but I had to resort to Google to find out how (Control Centre; KDE Component; Component Chooser as opposed to Control Centre; Preferred Applications in GNOME).
• I liked the discreet mail download meter in KMail much more than Evolution's huge pop-up window.
• The new SUSE 'K' menu rocks a lot more than the new GNOME Main Menu and it just works better for the following reasons:
  • Search in the beagle field at the top of the menu and the search results are embedded in the menu. This just makes a lot more sense than then waiting for the search window to open. If you want a separate window, you can still go to Kerry (or the beagle-search icon in GNOME) to achieve that.
  • The Applications section of the menu actually works and is navigable and sane. This is quite unlike to hopeless and awful GNOME Application Browser.
  • You can easily switch between the new style menu and the classic KDE Menu. This, again, is quite unlike the GNOME version
• Finally: I hate single-click and I couldn't find a way to switch to double-click.